Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that a former Iraqi general could not bring a private prosecution against Blair for the “crime of aggression”.

Criminal

This was used to prosecute Nazi war criminals under the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War, which then sought to set up international criminal laws.

Yet the British judges ruled that no such crime exists under British law.

The US and Britain invaded Iraq on the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. In reality, the US wanted to assert its power over its imperialist rivals by seizing control of one of the world’s largest deposits of oil.

After the Chilcot Inquiry last year, Jeremy Corbyn was right to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq war. He should kick Blair and his unrepentant acolytes out of the party.